49ers fan starts online petition against BART’s new ‘Seahawks’ colors

San Francisco 49ers fan Nasir Safdar is trying to use the power of the Internet to block BART’s plan to deck out new trains in the colors of the Seattle Seahawks.

Safdar has launched an online petition drive on Change.org to get BART to sack its neon green and blue seat cushion color scheme for new trains scheduled to go into full service in 2017.

Safdar doesn’t want the 49er Faithful to sit on constant reminders of the arch-rival Seahawks, who defeated the Niners in this year’s NFC Championship game on the way to winning Super Bowl XLVIII.

According to Safdar:

The Seattle Seahawks are the chief rivals of the San Francisco 49ers. To outfit BART car seats in the team colors of the Seattle Seahawks (i.e. neon green and blue) is an outrage and a slap in the face of every San Francisco 49ers fan who rides BART. We call upon BART General Manager Grace Crunican (who oddly enough worked as Director of the Seattle Department of Transportation prior to joining BART) to scrap plans to adorn BART car seats in neon green and blue and instead choose other colors.

The petition had more than 1,800 signatures by Tuesday morning.

Steve White of Redwood City commented that “BART management should have thought this through before making a decision. Who would want to ride in cars with a rival teams colors displayed. This is insensitive to the Bay Area. Why not choose neutral colors. This was intentionally done and the people responsible should foot the bill to change the colors.”

Of course, the petition would also mean BART couldn’t adopt other color schemes that might offend the Faithful, like blue, white and silver (Dallas Cowboys), blue and gold (St. Louis Rams), black, white and cardinal (Arizona Cardinals) or even “Silver & Black” (Raiders).

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